Smith Corona typewriters and all, the Front Page days lasted for decades at the Lorain Journal, now the Morning Journal but once an evening paper. I can still smell the old paste bottles and remember my fear of impalement on a copy spike, or the time a neighbor of the director of the local public housing agency almost shot me. Meanwhile enjoy this memorable video, a tribute to now-Chicago Tribune editor Greg Stricharchuck from his son, Nick. Imagine a gang-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight bothering to churn out fake quarters, “the first counterfeit quarter ring since the Civil War,” as Greg recalls.

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